Campaign launched for canonisation of Titanic priest

Friday, April 17th, 2015

A campaign has been launched for the canonisation of the priest who stayed on board the Titanic as it sank in order to pray with his fellow passengers.

According to survivors’ testimonies, Fr Thomas Byles twice refused a place on a lifeboat.

Rather, he stayed on the ship to pray with the passengers who were left aboard.

Fr Byles was one of 1500 people to die when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.

Fr Graham Smith, the priest at Fr Byles’s former church, St Helens in Chipping Ongar, Essex, in England, is urging prayers for Fr Byles.

Fr Smith is also asking people to report any miracles they think might have come about after Fr Byles’s intercession.

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Tags: Canonisation, Fr Graham Smith, Fr Thomas Byles, Prayer, Titanic

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